Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC's smartphone division | TechCrunch
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Google has announced the completion of its $1.1 billion deal to buy a large slice of HTC's hardware business. The acquisition was announced back in
  • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    10 months ago

    Buying new hardware engineers in Taiwan, after laying off hardware engineers in the US a couple weeks ago.

    Sounds like offshoring to me.

    EDIT: This is not recent news. Nevermind. Move along.

      • BlazeOPEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        It happened 6 years ago day-to-day, just guessed it could remind some people about their HTC memories

        • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          That’s fair. I do miss the good ol’ HTC days.
          I’m on the Google Nexus/Pixel train now though

          Thanks for updating the title so people don’t misinterpret it as happening recently

          • BlazeOPEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            No worries, I should have done it when I posted, but I thought the 6 years ago was a part of the title.

  • BlazeOPEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    A few of my friends had HTC in 2008, those were cool devices

    • Chozo@kbin.social
      5·
      10 months ago

      The HTC One M8 is still one of the most fun phones I’ve ever used. I wish IR blasters would come back.

      • DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social
        3·
        10 months ago

        That metal body was so nice. Plus you could unlock just about every part of an HTC.

        I miss HTC and the XDA forums for those devices…

    • comrade19@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I had the evo 3d which had a 3d camera and screen that needs no glasses. It was actually effective and had a whopping 5 hours battery life haha.

    • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I had the HTC One X which was literally hot. I couldn’t use it for a few minutes without it burning my hands.

      Not cool.